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Chapter 8 Creating Music Styles

Creating Original Styles (User Styles)

Although the KR features a variety of internal Music Styles, you can also create your own. These original Styles are called “User Styles.”

You can use either of the two methods described below to create a User Style.

■Creating New Styles by Combining Internal Music

Styles (Style Composer)

You can create a new style by selecting from among the Rhythm, Bass, Accompaniment 1, Accompaniment 2, and Accompaniment 3 parts in different Styles. This function is called the “Style Composer.”

* You can only combine the KR’s built-in Styles.

Style Composer

With this method, you combine internal Music Styles to create new Styles. You can create a new Style by selecting from among the Rhythm, Bass, Accompaniment 1, Accompaniment 2, and Accompaniment 3 parts in different styles.

Style Converter (p. 146)

Create a new Style by extracting the portions you need from songs composed with the 16-track sequencer.

When you’re composing a song, there’s no need to specify all the chords. You can specify just some of the chords, and the KR automatically chooses the other chords and arranges the Style.

Style Converter features an “Auto mode” that allows you to easily create Styles from songs with a single chord, and a “Manual mode,” in which you create Styles from songs with three kinds of chords–major, minor, and seventh chords.

Displaying the Style Composer Screen

1.Press the [Menu] button. The Menu screen appears.

2.Touch <Style Composer>.

*If a User Style has already been recorded, a message like the one shown below appears.

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Touch <Cancel> to return to the Menu screen. Save User Styles to floppy disks, or to user memory (p. 149).

When you touch <OK>, the previously recorded User Style is deleted, and a new User Style is created.

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